Your first visit to Ocean Park Natural Therapies may be a bit different than what you have experienced in previous medical appointments.
Starting with a short phone conversation, we will start with your primary concerns, and gather an overview and health history – then we will ask questions to discuss your health related concerns. We are interested in all of the illnesses, injuries, activities, surgeries, infections and health stresses you have experienced – often including your family of origin and developmental stages.
You may be surprised at the details that we take interest in – but a complete picture of what your system has experienced and imprinted- is necessary in order to best address the causal chains leading to your particular health challenge.
During your first visit to our clinic, we will utilize the information gathered during the phone conversation, complete necessary physical exams and do a quick screening using Autonomic Response Testing (ART) in order to assess your responsiveness and introduce you to its procedure.
Autonomic testing allows us to begin to understand more clearly where your body’s challenges lie and how to address them more quickly than is otherwise possible. In this way, each patient receives individualized care. Using ART, we can often identify the source(s) of a current dysfunction – be it a deficiency, a toxicity, structural blockage or an inability to integrate information processing – much like a defective computer operating system and programs. Any of these things can happen at several different levels: locally, regionally, systemically or multi-systemically. ART greatly improves our ability to find and locate answers to seemingly complex problems.
Once we have a general understanding of how to begin the process of moving you along your road to health, we will sit down with you and layout the approach that we will be taking so you can take an active role in helping yourself. It is not always possible to know how quickly and efficiently your body will respond to treatment but we will let you know what we have seen in others and the timeline that our experience tells us is reasonable to start seeing improvements. Follow up assessment and treatments needed will generally be outlined so we both have an idea of relative cost in terms of time, energy, and money.